Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer, a former editor at Powder and Skiing magazines, and a semi-reformed ski bum. Her book, Downriver, about paddling the Green River and the future of water in the Western U.S., was published in March 2019. REI member since 2009.
After a cold, dark, lonely winter, does anything sound better than sitting on a riverbank with a bunch of your besties, watching the sun sink low? We think not,...
I always thought that camping was supposed to be uncomfortable. Everything from abandoning four walls and a mattress to rubbing your heels raw from big miles in...
After the first 12 miles, the bike trail petered out and we turned onto the shoulder of a four-lane highway. Heading west, the graceful porches of old Florida g...
Days are short and temperatures are low, but with the right gear, winter runs can feel like a treat instead of torture. Plus, crisp air and the crunch of snow u...
The thing is, they were … fine. Stretched out and saggy and fraying at the seams, sure, but they were sweatpants, so functional seemed good enough. And since th...
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This op-ed represents the opinions of Heather Hansman.
I’m not a fiction writer, but if I were to write a novel about the dystopian future I might set it in ...
So, you want to make it work in a ski town? You know about the classic first-year liftie jobs at the ski hill and the constant cliché about the mountain-town ba...
OK, it’s not really a secret. You can basically spit on Denver from the top of Arapahoe Basin’s East Wall, and the mountain is typically one of the country’s fi...
Three miles into a humid, 11-mile run—just far enough that it was silly to turn back—I started to have regrets. They had been riding up the whole time, but as I...
“Well, here goes,” she wrote in the trail register at the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail. She second-guessed her vagueness, and her modesty. “To C...
